MONDAY WAS THE 1ST DAY OF AUTUMN
BEGINNING AT 9:45 P.M.
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Massive People’s Climate March Sunday,
filled the streets of midtown Manhattan
with demands for global leaders take
steps to avert catastrophic climate change.
Crowds gathered with banners, flags and
floats around Columbus Circle late Sunday
morning as music and chants rang out at
the start of the march. At exactly 12:58 P.M.
demonstrators held a moment of silence in
honor of the victims of climate change,
followed by noise with drums, cheers and
horns to sound an alarm to the crisis.
Organizers estimate there were around
310,000 demonstrators present to march.
Many demonstrators in the New York
march came from far across the globe,
including China, India, Senegal, Turkey,
Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
Kathryn Leuch, from the Philippines, said
she was here in the People’s Climate
March because of what global warming
is doing to her home country.
“People in the Philippines are impacted
and vulnerable to climate change,” she
said. If humanity keeps burning alarming
amounts of carbon, the result will be more
extreme weather events like Typhoon
Haiyan, known in the Philippines as
Typhoon Yolanda, which struck November
8th, 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine
typhoon on record, killing at least 6,300
people in that country alone.
At it's height, the system's one-minute
sustained winds were measured at 195
mph, unofficially making Haiyan the
strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded.
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• • SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15TH IS
HISPANIC AND LATINO HERITAGE MONTH
by Hispanic Latino people, just as it is
impacted by your people and mine.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH —
• A-C FOOD PANTRY AT CASEY U.M.C.
FROM 9 A.M. to 11 A.M.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH –
COLOR: GREEN
16TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Happy Birthday Gracie Richter!
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• Adult Sunday School at Casey U.M.C.
following worship service.
• AD COUNCIL MEETINGS TODAY:
9 A.M. IN ADAIR U.M.C.
10:15 A.M. IN CASEY U.M.C.
SUBJECT: OUR MINISTRY MISSION
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WE ARE CELEBRATING THE SEASON OF
CREATION THIS MONTH.
• 4TH SUNDAY IS WATER SUNDAY •
opens the possibility to explore how water
is used where you are; is it abundant? Is
it scarce? How should we plan to use it in
ways that ensure a better and safer life for
earth's people and creatures. Keeping a
balance of enough water and far too much
can be a frustrating problem.
There is nothing quite as beautiful as a tall
glass of cold water.
SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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EXODUS 17:1-7
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
People quarreled with Moses at Rephidim
because there is no water. The Lord tells
Moses to strike the rock at Horeb with his
rod. Moses names the place Massah and
Meribah.
1-2 Directed by God, the whole company
of Israel moved on by stages from the
Wilderness of Sin. They set camp at
Rephidim. But there wasn’t a drop of water
for the people to drink. The people took
Moses to task: “Give us water to drink.”
But Moses said, “Why pester me? Why
are you testing God?”
3 But the people were thirsty for water
there. They complained to Moses, “Why
did you take us from Egypt and drag us
out here with our children and animals to
die of thirst?”
4 Moses cried out in prayer to God, “What
can I do with these people? Any minute
now they’ll kill me!”
5-6 God said to Moses, “Go on out ahead
of the people, taking with you some of the
elders of Israel. Take the staff you used to
strike the Nile. And go. I’m going to be
present before you there on the rock at
Horeb. You are to strike the rock. Water
will gush out and the people will drink.”
elders of Israel right there watching. He
named the place Massah (Testing-Place)
and Meribah (Quarreling) because of the
quarreling of the Israelites and because of
their testing of God when they said, “Is
God here with us, or not?”
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PSALM 78 (UMH 799)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
AN ASAPH PSALM
1-4 Listen, dear friends, to God’s truth,
bend your ears to what I tell you.
I’m chewing on the morsel of a proverb;
I’ll let you in on the sweet old truths,
Stories we heard from our fathers,
counsel we learned at our mother’s
knee.
We’re not keeping this to ourselves,
we’re passing it along to the next
generation—
God’s fame and fortune,
the marvelous things he has done.
5-8 He planted a witness in Jacob,
set his Word firmly in Israel,
Then commanded our parents
to teach it to their children
So the next generation would know,
and all the generations to come—
Know the truth and tell the stories
so their children can trust in God,
Never forget the works of God
but keep his commands to the letter.
Heaven forbid they should be like their
parents,
bullheaded and bad,
A fickle and faithless bunch
who never stayed true to God.
9-16 The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth,
ran off when the battle began.
They were cowards to God’s Covenant,
refused to walk by his Word.
They forgot what he had done—
marvels he’d done right before their
eyes.
He performed miracles in plain sight of
their parents
in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan.
He split the Sea and they walked right
through it;
he piled the waters to the right and the
left.
He led them by day with a cloud,
led them all the night long with a fiery
torch.
He split rocks in the wilderness,
gave them all they could drink from
underground springs;
He made creeks flow out from sheer rock,
and water pour out like a river.
PHILIPPIANS 2:1-13
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Paul urges the Christians in Philippi to
have in them the mind that was in Christ
Jesus. He "sings them their song" and
urges them to work out their salvation
with fear and trembling.
HE TOOK ON THE STATUS OF A SLAVE
1-4 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of
following Christ, if his love has made any
difference in your life, if being in a
community of the Spirit means anything to
you, if you have a heart, if you care— then
do me a favor:
Agree with each other, love each other, be
deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way
to the front; don’t sweet talk your way to
the top. Put yourself aside, and help
others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with
getting your own advantage. Forget your-
selves long enough to lend a helping hand.
5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ
Jesus thought of himself. He had equal
status with God but didn’t think so much
of himself that he had to cling to the
advantages of that status no matter what.
Not at all. When the time came, he set
aside the privileges of deity and took on
the status of a slave, became human!
Having become human, he stayed human.
It was an incredibly humbling process. He
didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he
lived a selfless, obedient life and then
died a selfless, obedient death—and the
worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
9-11 Because of that obedience, God lifted
him high and honored him far beyond any-
one or anything, ever, so that all created
beings in heaven and on earth—even
those long ago dead and buried—will bow
in worship before this Jesus Christ, and
call out in praise that he is the Master of
all, to the glorious honor of God the
Father.
REJOICING TOGETHER
12-13 What I’m getting at, friends, is that
you should simply keep on doing what
you’ve done from the beginning. When I
was living among you, you lived in
responsive obedience. Now that I’m
separated from you, keep it up. Better yet,
redouble your efforts. Be energetic in your
life of salvation, reverent and sensitive
before God. That energy is God’s energy,
an energy deep within you, God himself
willing and working at what will give him
the most pleasure.
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MATTHEW 21:23-32
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The chief priests and elders ask Jesus by
what authority he acts. In response, Jesus
asks them a question they refuse to
answer. He then tells the parable of a
father who asks each of his two sons to
go work in the vineyard. One says, "No,"
but does go; the other says "yes," but
does not go.
TRUE AUTHORITY
23 Then he was back in the Temple,
teaching. The high priests and leaders of
the people came up and demanded,
“Show us your credentials. Who
authorized you to teach here?”
24-25 Jesus responded, “First let me ask
you a question. You answer my question
and I’ll answer yours. About the baptism
of John—who authorized it: heaven or
humans?”
25-27 They were on the spot and knew it.
They pulled back into a huddle and
whispered, “If we say ‘heaven,’ he’ll ask
us why we didn’t believe him; if we say
‘humans,’ we’re up against it with the
people because they all hold John up as a
prophet.” They decided to concede that
round to Jesus. “We don’t know,” they
answered.
Jesus said, “Then neither will I answer
your question.
THE STORY OF TWO SONS
28 “Tell me what you think of this story: A
man had two sons. He went up to the first
and said, ‘Son, go out for the day and
work in the vineyard.’
29 “The son answered, ‘I don’t want to.’
Later on he thought better of it and went.
30 “The father gave the same command to
the second son. He answered, ‘Sure, glad
to.’ But he never went.
31-32 “Which of the two sons did what the
father asked?”
They said, “The first.”
Jesus said, “Yes, and I tell you that crooks
and whores are going to precede you into
God’s kingdom. John came to you
showing you the right road. You turned up
your noses at him, but the crooks and
whores believed him. Even when you saw
their changed lives, you didn’t care
enough to change and believe him.
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• 1542 - San Diego, California, was
discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo.
• 1781 - During the Revolutionary War,
American forces began the siege on
Yorktown, Virginia.
• 1787 - The U.S. Congress voted to send
the new Constitution of the United States
to the state legislatures for their approval.
• 1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging
as a form of punishment.
• 1924 - The first around-the-world flight
was completed by two U.S. Army planes
when they landed in Seattle, Washington.
The trip took 175 days.
• 1939 - During World War II, Germany and
the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan to
divide Poland.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH —
Happy Birthday Kayla Plagman!
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THE OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY
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• 1829 - The first public appearance by
London's re-organized police force was met
with jeers from population. The force later
became known as Scotland Yard.
• 1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy
nationalized the Mississippi National guard
in response to city officials defying federal
court orders. The orders were to enroll
James Meredith at the University of
Mississippi.
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• 1777 - The Congress of the United States
moved to York, PA, due to advancing
British forces.
• 1868 - Spain's Queen Isabella was
deposed and fled to France.
• 1938 - The Munich Conference ended
with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler.
Britain, and France allowed
Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be
annexed by the Nazis.
• 1947 - The World Series was televised for
the first time. The sponsors only paid
$65,000 for the entire series between the
Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees.
• 1949 - The Berlin Airlift came to an end.
The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of
food into the western sector despite the
Soviet blockade.
• 1962 - James Meredith succeeded in
registering at University of Mississippi. It
was his fourth attempt to register.
• 1966 - Albert Speer and Baldur von
Schirach were released at midnight from
Spandau prison after completing their 20
year sentences. Speer was Nazi minister
of armaments and von Schirach was the
founder of Hitler Youth.
• 1989 -Tens of thousands of East Germans
began emigrating under an accord
between the NATO nations and the Soviet
Union.
• 1992 - Moscow banks distributed
privatization vouchers aimed at turning
millions of Russians into capitalists.
• 1998 - Gov. Pete Wilson of California
signed a bill into law that defined "invasion
of privacy as trespassing with the intent to
capture audio or video images of a
celebrity or crime victim engaging in a
personal or family activity." The law went
into effect January 1, 1999.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST —
• TEAM 5-6-7 PRE-CONFIRMATION AFTER
SCHOOL PROGRAM AT CASEY UMC
FROM 4 TO 5:30 P.M.
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U.M.W. SALAD SUPPER AT 6 P.M.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••SPRC MEETING - ADAIR U.M.C. 7:00 P.M.
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• 1800 - Spain ceded the territory of
Louisiana back to France. Later the
property would be purchased by the U.S.
effectively doubling the size of the United
States.
• 1896 - Rural Free Delivery (RFD) was
established by the U.S. Post Office.
• 1908 - The Model T automobile was
introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase
price of the car was $850.
• 1918 - Damascus was captured from the
Turks during World War I by a force made
up of British and Arab forces.
• 1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied
forces during World War II.
• 1946 - The International War Crimes
Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi
officials to death. Seven others were
sentenced to prison terms.
• 1971 - Walt Disney World opened in
Orlando, Florida.
• 1989 - 7,000 East Germans were warmly
welcomed into West Germany after they
were allowed to leave by the communist
government.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2ND —
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• 1835 - The first battle of the Texas
Revolution took place near the Guadalupe
River when American settlers defeated a
Mexican cavalry unit.
• 1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi
was born in India. He was known for his
advocacy of non-violent resistance in
fighting tyranny.
• 1870 - Rome became the capital of Italy.
• 1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas opened. It was the state's
first venture into public higher education.
• 1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
suffered a stroke that left him partially
paralyzed. This made dealing with World
War One very difficult.
• 1962 - U.S. ports were closed to nations
that allowed their ships to carry arms to
Cuba. Ships that had docked in a socialist
country were prohibited from docking in
the United States.
• 1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in.
He was the first African-American member
of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a
treaty clause which stated that an attack
on one member is an attack on all members.
The act was in response to the September
11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United
States.
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• 1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared
that the last Thursday of November would
be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
• 1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent
department store.
• 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes officially changed its name to the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• 1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League
of Nations leading Britain to terminate the
mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled
Iraq since taking it from Turkey in World
War I.
• 1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that
Russia was "broken" and it "would never
rise again."
• 1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops
broke through the Siegfried Line.
The Siegfried Line was a defense system
stretching more than 390 miles with more
than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels, and tank
traps. It went from the border with the
Netherlands, along the western border of
the old German Empire to the border with
Switzerland.
• 1989 - East Germany suspended travel to
Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the
flow of refugees to the West.
• 1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled
eleven months after the borders between
East and West Germany were dissolved.
Unification of Germany ended 45 years of
division.
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Christianity often sets aside for —
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
“Animals” refers to all the living creatures
people love—such as cats and dogs, birds,
reptiles, and fish, domesticated or wild.
they may wish to acknowledge animals
the wild.
MOTHER EARTH, OUR MOTHER
1. Mother Earth, our mother birthing
Every creature on the land
Jesus too was flesh and breathing,
Kin to all every greening plant.
Celebrate with all creation:
God has joined the web of life.
2. Sister Air, our sister lifting
Every creature born with wing;
Jesus shared the breath of forests,
Breath that makes our spirits sing.
Celebrate with all creation:
God has joined the web of life.
3. Brother Water, brother pulsing
Deep through every vein and sea,
Jesus drank the very raindrops
For our wine and in our tea.
Celebrate with all creation:
God has joined the web of life.
4. Father Fire, our father burning
With the sacred urge to live.
Jesus' death completes the cycle,
Bringing life beyond the grave.
Celebrate with all creation:
God has joined the web of life.
Words: © Norman Habel 1999
All dogs and cats, large and small:
Praise the Lord!
All rabbits, hamsters, and guinea pigs:
Praise the Lord!
All goldfish, guppies, and swimming
creatures: Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
All racoons, squirrels, and deer:
Praise the Lord!
All horses, cows, and sheep:
Praise the Lord! All lizards, snakes and
creeping things:
Praise the Lord!
Every animal in the sky, the sea, and the
forest:
Praise the Lord!
• 1535 - The first complete English trans-
lation of the Bible was printed in Zurich,
Switzerland.
• 1915 - The Dinosaur National Monument
was first established. The area covered
part of Utah and part of Colorado.
• 1927 - The first work of carving faces
began on Mount Rushmore.
• 1994 - South African President Nelson
Mandela was welcomed to the White
House by U.S. President Clinton.
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FUTURE FOCUS —
NOVEMBER 2ND - ADAIR'S FALL DINNER
NOVEMBER 9TH - CASEY'S FALL DINNER
Thank you for your contributions of spirit,
strength, and energy this week. You keep
these wheels rolling along.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna K
